The worst.
It's bad enough when Hollywood remakes useless films and forces them down our throats. It's even worse when they take masterpieces, remake them, and give no credit where credit is due. Check out this excerpt from a breathless piece in today's Variety:
FX gets serious about bible study
By Denise Martin
FX is mixing church and slate, teaming with Section Eight principals George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh on a 10 Commandments-themed event miniseries.
Ambitious 10-hour project explores the spiritual and moral issues faced by modern America as interpreted by 10 different directors.
Clooney and Soderbergh are set to execexec produce "The Ten Commandments" and will each helmhelm an installment.
Each episode will center on one of the biblical laws put to the test in today's climate. Since each hour will be written and conceived by separate helmers and writers, it is not likely that any of the stories or characters will cross over into other episodes.
Plan is for the stories to take place across contemporary America -- set among different ethnicities, classes and religious persuasions -- in order to paint a provocative portrait of today's diverse society and its relationships to God and the idea of right and wrong.
The concept for "Ten Commandments" was dreamed up by longform senior VP Gerard Bocaccio and pushed through by entertainment toppertopper John Landgraf, who will work with Section Eight to enlist top-drawer talent to helm each hour.
Um, yeah, Gerard, that bold and ambitious miniseries you "dreamed up" was done
posted by Ben @ 10:29 AM
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1 Comments:
i was surfing blogger and came upon your posting. having read the trades myself and then a follow-up letter to the editor a few days later that mirrors the point of view of your blog, i thought i'd just weigh in and say slow down man. clearly this guy didn't "dream" up anything, but if you really know kieslowski's films, they focus on one location and each commandment is interpreted by kieslowski and his partner. unless i read the story wrong, this is the ten commandments as told through the eyes of ten different filmmakers and writers with soderbergh and clooney overseeing it. seems a pretty cool idea to try and explore the state of modern morality, especially if the filmmakers are any good. but in truth, the commandments existed before kieslowski decided to make something of them as well so i don't think the new take on it is derivative unto itself, i think the reporter's writing was derivative and inarticulate.
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